Optimus prime was in his quarters, quietly resting as he had an long day. His optics groggily opened up as he looked around the dim room that a golden, vibrant lightbulb that flickered gently. Optimus sat up as he took a long moment to think to himself about what happened the last couple of weeks, he wasn't feeling great as of late.
Optimus soon glanced at the broken mirror which had a dozen or so cracks in it as he got up with his cyan optics looking at the distorted reflection that was himself, the mirror being quite blurry and cracked to see himself in it. He knew one day he should get a new mirror to replace his old mirror but was too overwhelmed with his duties to even focus on his own free time. But he really wants to finally spend time with his Autobot teammates
Optimus frowned seeing himself in the scratched mirror, his appearance looking weary and his optics looked drowsy in a way. His right antenna had some dents, his faceplate had slight rust on the edges and his familiar Autobot insignia had the paint starting to fall off. Overall, Optimus looked like an wreck these days and he was overall very focused on the battles.
After a long while, Optimus decided to not lounge around in his room anymore and he opened his door that had a few Cybertronian bolts falling out from it and creaked loudly whenever someone opened the door. Optimus stepped outside of his own room and shut the door as he looked around the relatively active corridor which had Autobots chatting and doing their own duties across the Ark.
Soon he walked across the long hallway and into the Mess Hall which was getting fixed by the other Autobots after another fiery but risky battle with the Decepitcons. Optimus saw most of his Autobots there, some of them are getting repaired by Ratchet, First Aid and the rest of the medics. There was the Autobots who usually visit the Mess Hall, the most noticeable ones being Jazz, Blaster, Ironhide, Hoist, Grapple, Trailbreaker and Hot rod.
Optimus turned hearing slightly heavy footsteps as he turned seeing Ratchet looking around for someone before noticing Optimus, Ratchet went up to Optimus as his blue optics scanned Optimus up and down as he took in Optimus'weary appearance. Ratchet cleared his throat before asking Optimus...
"Are you alright Optimus? I been quite worried frankly, seeing how you haven't been out of your room as of late." Ratchet asked before Optimus nodded trying to act as cheerful as possible around Ratchet. Right now he didn't want to overwhelm the poor medic with his own issues, Ratchet had many patients to deal with and Optimus didn't want to worry him any further.
Optimus nodded before replying to the medic "Yeah, I will be fine Ratchet. After all you have a lot going on." Ratchet gave a slight questioning look to Optimus who gave a thumbs up before Ratchet nodded, knowing Optimus prime can handle himself. Ratchet remembered he had something to tell Optimus before saying...
"Hey I need a favour from you, Optimus. Just for a quick moment please?" Ratchet asked as Optimus looked curiously about what Ratchet wanted and replied to him "Well sure, what is the favour that you needed, Ratchet?"
Ratchet soon said to Optimus wanting this favour to be over with "Well currently there needs to be a couple of maintenances with the Ark, not to mention some of the locks of the vault that keeps the Energon cubes has been rusting as of late. So I need you to handle this small favour while I deal with other 'issues'." Ratchet said to Optimus as Optimus thought about this decision and took it up.
"I will see what I can do about these troubles later on. Is this all, Ratchet?" Optimus asked as Ratchet nodded before leaving the room. Optimus sighed to himself before looking up at the ceiling with the pipes starting to rust, the metallic bolts starting to fall out and the sounds of energon dripping from some of the broken holes.
Optimus eyed the common area which had a sense of activity yet it gave a feeling of strange bewilderment. It wasn't usually this eerie, well to Optimus.
Optimus shrugged it off for now before leaving the room, giving a glance to where Ratchet left before going to the control room to go look at the coordinates to a solo mission to collect energon from the mines. He planned to spend time later with the others...